BlackLight 2018 R4 is now available!

Difseco would like to announce that BlackLight 2018 R4 has
officially been released! There are several important updates and improvements
that will help your software run as efficiently as possible.

What’s New and Improved?

• Apple’s
latest picture and video formats (HEIC/HEVC) support

• Tagging
Improvements

• iPhone
XS, XR, and iPad Pro device support

• Improved
support for Android MMS on Samsung devices

• Parsing
“Recent Items” on macOS 10.13

• Easier
license management of BlackBag dongles

• BlackLight
is now exclusively a 64-bit application

NEW FEATURES

Apple’s latest picture and video formats (HEIC/HEVC)
support

Starting with iOS 11 Apple introduced a new format for image
storage called HEIC. HEIC is the file format name Apple chose for the newer
High Efficiency Image Format (HEIF) standard. BlackLight can now display and
report on HEIC images and HEVC video, including image containers with multiple
images like exist in Apple’s live photos.

Tagging Improvements

Blacklight has made tagged items easier to be seen and sorted.
Now it’s easier to see which items in a view have been tagged.

In addition, items with multiple tags are now easier to see
and remove from multiple tag containers. Right (contextual) clicking on a tag
item will reveal a menu system for removing that tag item. The menu will show every
tag container that item is stored in and allow removal from all or some of the
containers.

iPhone XS, XR, and iPad Pro device support

BlackLight running on macOS will now properly ingest the
newer hardware devices without issue. If BlackLight is running on Windows it is
important to install the latest BlackBag driver package or install the latest
version of iTunes in order to have proper support.

Improved support for Android MMS on Samsung
devices

Originally, Android devices did not have a native message
app with group message capabilities. However, with Android 6 and up, users can
now send group messages through the native application, although each message
is sent as an MMS instead of a SMS.

Parsing “Recent Items” on macOS 10.13

BlackLight now parses “Recent Items” accessed or run on a
system from macOS version 10.13. The format this information is stored in has
changed from prior version.

Easier license management of BlackBag dongles

A new license manager is available to more easily manager your
dongle(s) and license. BlackLight will open the application through the ‘Help’
menu. It is also available on the BlackBag’s Software downloads page on the
website and can be run independently of any application. This license manager
is used to manage all BlackBag licenses and can be used to check and update the
license. Note: the application must be run from a system with internet access.

BlackLight is now exclusively a 64-bit
application

As computers have added resources, including large memory
capabilities, the operating system has needed the ability to take advantage of
those resources. Most systems are now
64-bit, and when combined with 64-bit applications users can best take
advantage of these resources. BlackLight
will now be able to take advantage of this additional memory space when doing
large processing calculations on data. However, it should be noted that while
performance gains have been seen, there can still be bottlenecks in I/O.

For more information please see the release notes
here for more specific changes and updates about these new features and
improvements. For license order or renewal please contact us at info@difseco.com